Busch rolls to another Nationwide win

CONCORD, N.C. --- Kyle Busch is feeling better, thanks.

The NASCAR star shrugged off walking pneumonia to dominate the Nationwide Series race at Lowe's Motor Speedway on Friday night, picking up his seventh victory of the year to extend his points lead over Carl Edwards with four races remaining.

Mike Bliss was second, followed by Dave Blaney and Brian Vickers. Edwards finished fifth to drop 195 points behind Busch.

Busch led 137 laps at the 1.5-mile oval, and celebrated his first Nationwide win in nearly three months by doing a couple of burnouts after grabbing the checkered flag.

MOVING ON: Denny Hamlin is over last week's debacle at Auto Club Speedway.

He just wishes everybody else was, too.

Hamlin likely saw his bid for his first NASCAR title evaporate with 60 laps to go when the pole-sitter mistakenly tried to cut off a hard-charging Juan Pablo Montoya on a double-file restart. He didn't have enough room and his No. 11 Toyota ended up spinning into the pit road barrier.

The crash sent him to a 37th-place finish and dropped him to ninth in the Chase for the Championship heading into tonight's race at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

Hamlin made no excuses for the crash, blaming himself for the move that ended what had been a pretty steady run during NASCAR's playoffs.

"I was doing everything I could and just bit myself," Hamlin said. "It's just frustrates you for about two days and then you get over it and then you hear someone say, 'Hey, man, sorry about last weekend.' Then you're like, 'Well, I forgot about it until you said something.' "

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